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At a Glance
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www.MoonDanceArts.ca
"Events" page.
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Keep in Touch
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www.MoonDanceArts.ca
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SLAM! Community Corner Creation
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| Taking shape as a creative commUNITY building event,
SLAM! Community Corner
is ever evolving.
September 18, 2010
2:00 - 6:00pm
Shawnigan Village
between Wilmot & Dundas
Entertainment
(including Mtoni Marimba & Wontanara Drum & Dance), Activities, Food, and more!
Get your feet in the mud building the cob bench, or take in the festivities.
www.CommunityCreation.ca
A partnership:
Cowichan Intercultural Society
Welcome BC
Government of Canada
MoonDance
OUR Ecovillage
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FALL
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| Fall classes now online
for Victoria and the Art House
Creative Dance for KIDS
West African Dance
West African Drumming
Doundoun Dance
Afro-Colombian
Bhangra
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Art House Workshop Series
first Saturday of each month
Oct - June
Hooping
Laughter Yoga
Singing
Goal Setting
Aromatherapy
Chakra Yoga
Flamenco
and more!
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WONTANARA DRUM & DANCE
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"Whatever the occasion, Wontanara Drum & Dance
offers a true experience in authentic African performing arts and music
and will take you on an invigorating journey through the traditional
rhythms
and dances of Guinea, West Africa."
Artistic Director:
Mohamed Duranteau
Manager: Marielle Duranteau
Now in partnership with MoonDance Dynamic Arts School
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Issue: # 28
| September 2010
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 - Peggy King It feels like the change of seasons is in the air...
All the best for the remainder of 2010!
In strength,
Lynn
 photo: Prairie Child
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FINAL WEEK to register for Denbaya
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Registration closes August 27th for
Denbaya West African Intensive(including single day options ~ sorry, no drop-in)
Naby Camara
Juno Award winner with the African Guitar Summit!
N'nato Camara
dance dynamo
Manimou Camara
former Lead Doun player for Ballet Saamato!
Mohamed Duranteau
MoonDance's own!
for detailed bios please see the Denbaya page...
NEW ADDITIONS!:
Aboubacar Camara of Doundounba (Vancouver)
Abdoulaye Sylla of One World Arts Exchange (Seattle)
www.MoonDanceArts.ca
250 743 5846
Labour Day Long Weekend
Sept 3 - 6th
Full Weekend includes:
all meals, accomodations, 11 workshops!!, Guinean Dinner, Doundounba, DJ dance party, Cultural Forum, and more!
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NO PRICE CHANGE
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Prices for all MoonDance classes have stayed the same, and we are still utilising our unique
sliding-scale pricing as often as possible,
to ensure accessibility to all for our classes.
"Why does it look more expensive?"
With encouragement from your feedback on the Student Survey, we are testing out longer sessions!
The Fall Session is 11-classes long
(usually 7 classes in the past).
Under the new system you can:
In future, you will be able set up your automatic billing once/month!
NB: Creative Dance for Kids in Victoria have their own date/fee system.
Questions? Comments?
The Feedback Form is always available online:
for anonymity.
Or call or email Lynn: info@matoto.org
250 743 5846
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Monthly Challenge
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So how did the 7-day Meditation Challenge go? Interested in sharing your thoughts/insights? Go to MoonDance's Facebook page and click on Discussions to see/contribute to a thread for each month's challenge.
September Challenge:
10-Day Green Smoothie Challenge
MMMmmmm.... Stock up on fresh local fruit at this harvest time of year. Green smoothie?
Add a greens powder (Vega has good vegan products, and is a local Van Isle company), or liquid chlorophyll or similar. Best option: add a handful of your favourite fresh greens: tender is better in this case (kale is my fav, but makes for a chunkie rather than a smoothie!). Good choices are spinach and parsley. Go easy on high-flavour greens (like cilantro) unless you love the flavour.
My Favourite Green Smoothie
-1 banana
-4 strawberries
-handful of raspberries or blackberries or whatever yummy gifts from Nature!
-juice (any kind)
-rice milk or almond milk to desired consistency
-tbl spoon of flax seed oil and/or hemp seed oil (you won't even notice ; )
-handful of spinach or other greens
-vega or other greens/protein powder (optional)
Blend. Enjoy.
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"Welcome" to MoonDance's newest instructors
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The Art House is pleased to offer classes with two creative, dynamic new instructors:
Sunny Thiara Sunny has been dancing Bhangra from childhood, and during her
university years, she was part of a Bhangra Dance Team in Victoria,
performing at
international festivals and Indo-Canadian events and concerts. She also
enjoys dancing to pop music, and has learned dance from other cultures
as well. Chris O'Connor Chris has recently moved to Vancouver Island. He has an MFA in
Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University. While primarily
focusing on
dance and creative movement, Chris also incorporates sound, installation
and theatre within his overall artistic practice. He has danced in
companies
in various cities throughout North America spanning a range of styles -
from highly physical dance on scaffolding to an intergenerational dance
company where the oldest member was 90 years old. He has danced in
alleyways, living rooms, on and under bridges, in prisons, in old age
homes,
and most places in between. For the last few years Chris has been an
arts educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, led and organized Soundwalks
for
Vancouver New Music and taught creative movement in elementary and
secondary schools throughout the lower mainland with Learning Through
the Arts.
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| Food For Thought |
- Jenny Harris
Strength is the inner power to withstand whatever comes. It is our capacity to endure in the midst of tests. We grow in strength as we tackle life's challenges with courage and determination. We deepen in strength when we choose gentleness and practice patience. We stay strong when we recognise that suffering is a thread woven through the design of our lives, not to make us unhappy, but to transform us with grace. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
In your day, invite these thoughts:
I have the power to endure my tests.
I willingly face the challenges of my life.
I have the courage to persevere.
I cultivate gentleness and patience.
I trust the value of transformative opportunities.
I am thankful for the gift of Strength. It empowers my soul.
Adapted from the Virtues Project International.
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